by Siddharth Ravuri Siddharth Ravuri is an undergraduate student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in Political Science and Linguistics. Siddharth’s future plans including traveling, practicing international law, and using multiple languages. He wrote this blog post for 418 “Language and Minorities in Europe” in Spring 2023. In the fall of 2022, a series of violent incidents between Muslims and Hindus in Leicester, England took place, to the shock of much of the global community who believed these differences to be conflicts of another continent entirely. Investigations of the incidents found that they had been caused by misinformation campaigns ran out of India in order to incite violence in Leicester (Chandra 2022). Why is the UK a battleground for the Hindu-Muslim conflict? The 1947 Partition of the British Raj caused the largest mass migration in human history, cleaving the Indian Subcontinent by religious divisions imposed by old colonial authorities. The ...